danfrodo

Well I find your description of chickens hurtful and offensive to a wonderful bird that had given so much.  However, isn’t clusterf### too broad.  I think we need something else.  Dog humping a football.  Idiot orgy. (Both still have sexual connotations).  Or we go right to the source and make it personal: Russian Army Operation.

Saw this posted by Garry Kasparov

Darwin had a theory about that. I believe it is now the basis for an award.  😆
 

I never could hit anything w these in CMSF2.  My guys would fire at ~400m and it would miss by 100m, up, left right, down.  I hope they are better in real life.  
But they look damn cool. 

Nonsense meme🙂

Tank porn.  Very hot.  😀

Wait a minute, I've seen furious handwaving from individual russian soldiers not only stop drones but cause them to explode.  Seems, unfortunately, that it has a range of less than 1 meter.
And thanks to Fenris & HarmonRabb for some morale-boosters in their posts above, on what was shaping up to be a day of rather bleak news.  

Wait a minute, I've seen furious handwaving from individual russian soldiers not only stop drones but cause them to explode.  Seems, unfortunately, that it has a range of less than 1 meter.
And thanks to Fenris & HarmonRabb for some morale-boosters in their posts above, on what was shaping up to be a day of rather bleak news.  

So, anyway.... RU still on the attack.  Footage of successful local defence west of Avdiivka.
And the same near Vuhledar 
 
UKR  unable to strike RU as they form up
Looks like UKR still have some arty ammo available around Robotyne though
 
And Krynky has fallen!  Apparently.
More on why the above is doing the rounds
 

The fallacy that you are pointing out is one we see with cold fusion, self driving cars, etc. I can't count the amount of times in the last 10 years in which someone says "Well, Silicon Valley (or VC money, or the USG, or China...take your pick) is going all in on X so it's certain to be resolved". That's not how it works. Challenges of that scale and complexity don't just evaporate with money and attention...especially in a case like drones where the challenge hasn't even reach the capabilities we can already see coming around the next iterative bend. 
The blithe dismissal of the issue with a blank assertion that big militaries with enormous physical and mental investment and successful track records in old ways of making war reminds of me a certain application of élan vital with a result that's more than likely to be similar.
No thanks. 

ahh but not quite there.  Behold Capt while I propose a truly revolutionary development.  We have so many many people who clearly aren't using their brains and so... we take ze brains of zee people not needing them and put them into zee drones!  We have literally tens of millions and zooo much better if ze brain is right zere in zee drones, no?

Looks like every one of our allies is shaming us.  Thanks Japan and thanks Germany for doing the right thing.  

I'm confused.  Where else would someone get something this stupid?  I used to work w a guy who would come in every day spouting whatever nonsense he heard on rightwing radio on his drive, only to be devastated, continually by his coworkers who simply fact checked his nonsense.  Kimbosbread does this all the time.  Here, he triumphantly announces that the aid not happening is all the fault of the guy trying to actually get the aid instead of the people holding the aid hostage.  

Looks like every one of our allies is shaming us.  Thanks Japan and thanks Germany for doing the right thing.  

Looks like every one of our allies is shaming us.  Thanks Japan and thanks Germany for doing the right thing.  

Looks like every one of our allies is shaming us.  Thanks Japan and thanks Germany for doing the right thing.  

True? 
Hopefully. 

Please make it happen. 🙂
 
 
 

FPV dog fights are already a thing: 
 

From my limited observation 60-100 kmh helps to decrease the chance of hit There are unverified RU claims that with 100-120 kmh you can drive away from FPV  The second video  shows Avenger escaping from Lancet Keep in mind that piloting FPV is not easy - you need to compensate for example for the wind etc. Even tanks can benefit from speed, but I mostly see wheeled vehicles escaping attack. Here is quadracycle at full speed escapes the attack and we also can compare it with successful attack. RU claims that the current typical suicide FPV that operates at frontline has just 25 minutes (at longer range UKR use different noticeably slower drones). It does not mean that speed is 100% protection, but it does mean that speed helps.  [EDIT] Another good video of RU drone that was too slow.

Lancet is 200-300km in a dive with its elegant missile-like proportions and weighs ~15kg. A regular old quadcopter can easily do 100+ kmh even with a bit of weight on it.
So basically, much faster than most wheeled or tracked vehicles on the current be-holed, be-trenched and be-shrapneled mess of a battlefield.

Tissues are bourgeois inventions, comrade. Since the last 5-year plan all tissue and toilet paper factories have been retooled to make sandpaper. And better make a good stock of it while it lasts, comrade. Next year they are all switching to coarser grain.
PS. True story from actual experience of living under "real socialism". Two things they could never produce in sufficient numbers was toilet paper and rope for baling hay. 

Don't really see the point of the Patton quote posting. Far right people love to post another quote of his that "we fought the wrong enemy", implying that he would rather have allied with the nazis. Guy was a piece of work. In his own words, quoted in Peter Harts The Last Battle, during the American offensive in 1918, Patton thought he killed an American soldier who was shell  shocked, hitting him over the head. Somehow this anecdotal admission of possible manslaughter/murder has been completely forgotten despite the scandal in WW2 when Patton simply slapped a soldier.  This wasn't the only time Patton would inflict violence against soldiers of his own country who fought in the first war, he helped put down with force the Bonus Army that marched to DC to get the benefits they were owed. 
Patton was no hero and isn't worth celebrating.